MARGARET McNAMARA is the author of How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?, illustrated by G. Brian Karas, which won a Christopher Award, and The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot, illustrated by Mark Fearing. She is also the author of the popular Robin Hill School series. On her birthday, she likes to go out to dinner with family and friends in New York City, where she lives.

BARRY BLITT’s illustrations frequently appear on the cover of the New Yorker and have also graced the pages of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, Child magazine, and Entertainment Weekly. He is the illustrator of the children’s books The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn by Robert Burleigh and Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds) by Geoffrey Kloske.